My guess is that someone with a similar political ideology to you upvoted forty of your comments on the recent political post.
ETA: Well I've been struck by the mysterious mass-upvoter as well! I'm pretty sure the political motivation hypothesis is wrong now.
Since my political ideology in that debate was trying to steelman both sides, I doubt this is the case, unless there is a fanatical steelmanner out there.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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